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Juvenalian
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English
Etymology
From en Juvenal ian.
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the Roman poet Juvenal or to his (satirical) works or style.
en 1986 w:Emory Elliott Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WmI6avgH0GoC&pg=PA191&dq=%22more%7Cmost+Juvenalian%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwij5fmUofn0AhWDdd8KHaJcDrYQ6AF6BAhcEAI#v=onepage&q=%22more%7Cmost%20Juvenalian%22&f=false 191 w:Oxford University Press The satire here is more heavy-handed and the tone more Juvenalian than in any passage in the first volume.
en 2007 Joseph F. Bartolomeo 14: Restoration and Eighteenth-century Satiric Fiction Ruben Quintero A Companion to Satire https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ONdfDFt8YdgC&pg=PA271&dq=%22more%7Cmost+Juvenalian%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwij5fmUofn0AhWDdd8KHaJcDrYQ6AF6BAgREAI#v=onepage&q=%22more%7Cmost%20Juvenalian%22&f=false 271 The satiric voice, as Gadeken (2002) argues, is more Juvenalian in tone, but is confined almost exclusively to the narrator.
2019, Ronald Paulson, The Fictions of Satire, Johns Hopkins University Press, Open access edition, unnumbered page,
At its most Juvenalian, it follows from Horace's Venusian ancestors, who guarded the Roman border against barbarians, as Horace does figuratively now.
Translations
of or pertaining to Juvenal, his works or his style
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